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[-] arrow74@lemmy.zip 128 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I love how accurate this image is. As they hammer more the structure becomes more and more unstable.

I've noticed the AI search suggestions from Bing and Google are just becoming more and more inaccurate as they feed off themselves. I can't even imagine what it's doing to systems we can't see.

[-] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 63 points 6 months ago

Everything is fine. It will become god and fix all our problems any second now, and if you say that's mathematically impossible you're just a hater.

[-] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 34 points 6 months ago

"We will create God then ask him for money."

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

"It doesn't matter that we are burning 1 trillion dollars with no pat to revenue, because we will create God and it will make money meaningless."

"Also, it will cure cancer and solve Global Warming. I know dumb people like you that can't even get a trillion dollars to burn care about those things.

[-] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 months ago

TIL Catholics invented AI

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 6 months ago

I mean, nitpick, but if you blamed mathematics you actually would be. The observation that AI/LLMs are highly unreliable and don't appear to be getting any better is empirical.

[-] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

We ha e known since the 50s. The math was done.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 6 months ago

Hmm. I'm not sure what you're referring to. Do you have a link?

[-] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

No but Turing was involved, and the guy who wrote ELIZA

The tech isn't new. That's all the effort I'm willing to put in for this trash.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

And that paper's name? Albert Einstein. I can't find anything on Weizenbaum and Turing authoring together. Weizenbaum seems to have written mostly prose and code, even - he's not really thought of for his mathematical innovations, although obviously math was his original field.

Back in the 50's people thought conventional algorithms, like everybody here has worked with, were going to reach human intelligence. They could play chess, and chess is smart guy stuff, so obviously recognising a bird should be easy, right? Well, they figured out that wasn't right, and so began the first AI winter.

The tech of deep neural nets is in fact fairly new. Like, arguably it didn't become a thing until the Cold War was ending, although there were a lot of precursors, and it kind of arrived gradually.

[-] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

'Deep neural nets' that's not a thing, dude. If it was, it was out on ice for this trash.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Any comments on how you attempted to lie to us all there? To win an internet argument?

It is. It's one that has hidden layers, as opposed to a shallow neural net which does not. Shallow neural nets aren't really a thing anymore, so it's usually omitted, but historically things like the perceptron go back further, and they're conceptually simpler to update during training. They also can't really deal with anything nonlinear.

[-] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

Okay boomer. You understand technology I guess. This technology that's so good and has so many applications and isn't a trillion+ dollar ponzi scheme, and is totally gonna summon us up god any minute now.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago

Thank you, yes I do. And like I said in OP it seems to be crapping out pretty good at it's current level of ability - maybe it's not a Ponzi scheme, but it is a giant overvalued bubble.

The internet can't hurt you, you don't have to lie to us. And it kinda pisses me off when people do anyway, because it makes it worse for everyone.

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

i mean, we have the solutions to a lot of problems already

traffic? public trains

hunger? just like, feed people

global warming? reduce fossil fuel usage and stop poisoning the oceans

homeless? literally so many empty homes, put people in them???

and we've had many smart people create step by step plans for all of these!

the thing is... i guess rich people want a solution that doesn't involve them paying for something that's good not just for them but for others? so all those plans fail at step 1 - have empathy

[-] Truscape 11 points 6 months ago

noai.duckduckgo my beloved, glad that's the best free option rn (although I think Kagi is getting popular too, but that's paid).

[-] Uri@infosec.pub 7 points 6 months ago

Kagi pays yandex for image search ewww. Use a searxng instance and thank me later. Seriously give it a try

[-] keyez@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Glad to know that option is available, I've been using DDG for years and use the AI assist like once a week when I have a really specific search about a movie or scene or actor or event happening 14 years ago going off memory. After about the 3rd search I actually get useful information from the AI assist.

Most recently I searched for "movie scene with slow motion cannonballs flying around while ship explodes" because I could remember that gif but not the movie. No search results were helpful, nor images or videos but the AI assist said it was a scene from the 3rd pirates of the Caribbean.

[-] naught101@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Also it's building on top of existing fragility (the thin pillar below), and only making it worse

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[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 70 points 6 months ago

Not just MS though, right?

[-] SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 17 points 6 months ago

MS is especially egregious about it.

They're planning the next iteration of Windows to be primarily AI-driven - as in, the AI runs things for you.

[-] mogranja@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

AI ruins things for you

FTFY

[-] KelvarCherry 9 points 6 months ago

well Microsoft saaaaaays that, but they also said in the same video that they'd achieve "Computing in the realm of Quantum" so I predict multiple shitty interface updates and a few new pop-ups.

[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

Most developers in general.

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 35 points 6 months ago

As a developer this has not been my experience, we all hate it with the fiery passion of a thousand suns.

My former boss fucking loved it though, but he was a PM not a dev.

[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 6 months ago

I guess that last sentence sums it up well.

[-] criss_cross@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

More like C Level people that force devs to make this crap

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There are job postings that not only actively encourage it as part of the job description but ask that you be enthusiastic about it

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Developers ๐Ÿ‘ Developers ๐Ÿ‘ Developers ๐Ÿ‘ Developers ๐Ÿ‘ Developers ๐Ÿ‘ Developers ๐Ÿ‘ Developers ๐Ÿ‘ Developers ๐Ÿ‘ Developers ๐Ÿ‘ Developers ๐Ÿ‘ Developers ๐Ÿ‘ Developers ๐Ÿ‘

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 41 points 6 months ago

Meanwhile that little block at the bottom is still doing its best to keep it all together. For now.

[-] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 6 months ago

could it be the foss and publicly fund research and training I wonder

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[-] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

ImageMagik is referenced in the alt text of the original comic Dependency โ€” mobile version

[-] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

The only thing even FFMPEG can't attack.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

MS can't force that one to use AI on development. But they can force almost everybody up.

[-] ikoz@programming.dev 38 points 6 months ago

It will collapse due to the AI slop(e)

[-] goatinspace@feddit.org 20 points 6 months ago
[-] luciferofastora@feddit.org 16 points 6 months ago

Love the person in the background getting up, looking over and just sitting back down again like Greg sledgehammering his monitor to pieces is nothing extraordinary

[-] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 6 months ago

Too many people identified the monitor as the source of their frustration, when really it was the box on which it sat that was to blame

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[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

They are putting it into washing machines these days.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

"Oh good catch! How astute of you! Of course I should have added detergent before running the cycle!"

[-] KelvarCherry 5 points 6 months ago

"...but I ignored your specific instructions and instead ran the washing machine for 15 hours. That was very wasteful of me, and you're right that was not what I was instructed to do, but I did it anyways."

[-] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

More like doing a big sloppy crap of AI on top of everything.

[-] Honytawk@feddit.nl 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

At least copilot only does shit when you click on it, even if it is useless.

Unlike Google, which wastes tons of electric and water every single search without the users consent. That is a lot more damaging to society than whatever Microsoft does.

[-] freamon@preferred.social 4 points 6 months ago

Speaking of being needlessly destructive with stupid bots, these duplicates of other user's posts don't even register as cross-posts anymore (due to image proxying).

[-] cm0002@infosec.pub 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Lol what bots? This is all manual hence why some posts get through with the dumb proxy URL that I typically manually edit

Why am I cross-posting .ml content?

I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don't want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms.

Megathread on the issue

Some highlights from the link:

"Don't worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

"See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn't count!!" ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068

"NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

General negative sentiment to other instances who haven't "seen the way" yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510

"If you don't support Russia then you just don't understand geopolitics" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can't even put them all here because this comment would be really long.

I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda

On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like "Lemmy? Isn't that the place with a bunch of tankies?" Or "Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left". The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.

[-] SCmSTR 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm blown away that they actually named it copilot. I would have thought they'd name it something stupid like "my computer* or "xbox" or "me".

[-] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago

Or ActiveAzure

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